Porcentaje de quienes luego se arrepienten de cada elección. Las barras y el registro completo aparecen abajo.
Carrera
Última revisión 2026-04-26
Calidad de la evidencia 4.25/5
Puntuación de revisión en ocho dimensiones según la
rúbrica de calidad
. Cada dimensión puntuada de 1 a 5.
D1 Verificación de fuentes
5/5
D2 Autoridad e independencia de las fuentes
4/5
D3 Precisión de la tasa de arrepentimiento
2/5
D4 Comparabilidad de las fuentes
5/5
D5 Patrón de Gilovich
5/5
D6 Calidad de la prosa
5/5
D7 Completitud de las advertencias
5/5
D8 Calidad de la muestra
3/5
Media4.25/5
Datos sustitutos — no existe ninguna encuesta directa sobre el arrepentimiento para esta decisión. Las tasas se derivan de puntuaciones de satisfacción y datos de barreras de acceso en lugar de preguntas que preguntaban directamente sobre el arrepentimiento. Ver advertencias más abajo.
Arrepentimiento por acción
Trabajar en remoto
36%
≤36% con débil apego al trabajo remoto (proxy de retención de Pew — no existe encuesta directa de arrepentimiento)
Trabajadores estadounidenses que trabajan desde casa al menos parte del tiempo (Pew)
retrospectivo, sin marco temporal fijo
Arrepentimiento por inacción
Trabajar en la oficina
63%
El 63% de los trabajadores de oficina preferiría el trabajo remoto (proxy de preferencia de Pew — no existe encuesta directa de arrepentimiento)
Trabajadores estadounidenses que rara vez o nunca trabajan desde casa (Pew)
retrospectivo, sin marco temporal fijo
% que se arrepienten de esta elección
Trabajar en remotoTrabajar en la oficina
36%63%
inaction dominates — Domina la inacción — la mayoría se arrepiente de no actuar.
Decisiones relacionadas
Decisiones semánticamente similares — mismo terreno, distintos compromisos.
No survey asks workers directly whether they regret going remote or staying in
the office, so the cleanest available signal is what people say they would
choose if they could. The Pew Research Center’s January 2025 report is lopsided
on the office side: 63% of workers who rarely or never work from home say
that, given the choice, they would prefer to work from home most or some of the
time; within that same office group, 19% would choose to work from home all the
time and only 17% would opt to keep rarely or never working remotely. Pew,
however, publishes no matching “would prefer the office” figure for people who
already work remotely, so the two sides cannot be compared like-for-like. What
Pew does show about remote workers is attachment: 46% of current remote
workers say they would be unlikely to stay at their job if their employer
eliminated work-from-home, and a smaller 36% say they would be likely to
stay — the closest thing to a low-regret ceiling on the remote side. The
pattern is consistent with Gilovich and Medvec’s long-term inaction-dominance
finding — sticking with the office when a flexible alternative exists leaves
more people wishing they had chosen otherwise — but the magnitudes on the two
sides come from different questions and should be read as directional.
A separate satisfaction survey points the same direction without being a regret
measure. The Global Work-Life Survey by Remote, the Future Workforce Alliance,
and IE Business School found 65% of remote workers “extremely satisfied”
with their jobs versus just 34% of office-based employees. That is a
satisfaction gap, not a regret rate: an earlier version of this entry inverted
those top-box scores (treating everyone not “extremely satisfied” as
regretful), which counted merely “very satisfied” workers as dissatisfied and
inflated both numbers. Those inverted figures (35% and 66%) have been dropped.
The main caveat is measurement. “Would prefer the other arrangement” still is
not lived regret — someone content in the office who would mildly prefer
flexibility counts in the 63%, so the proxy can overstate true regret. The
direction is robust across independent surveys; the absolute magnitudes should
be read as upper bounds. The often-quoted Envoy figure that “80% of bosses
regret return-to-office plans” is excluded here as a worker-level rate: it
measures executives’ process regret about how their company handled RTO, a
different population and a different construct. The Pew sample is US adults;
remote-work norms vary across countries.
Fuentes: acción
Registro de evidencia
Cada número a continuación es lo que reportó cada fuente, con la cita textual en la que nos basamos y cómo llegamos a nuestra cifra. Haz clic en cualquier enlace para verificarlo directamente.
[1]Pew Research Center — Many remote workers say they'd be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
Estudio primario
46% of current remote workers would be unlikely to stay if remote work were eliminated; a smaller 36% say they'd be likely to stay
Extracto
“"46% say that if their employer no longer allowed them to work from home, they would be unlikely to stay at their current job. This includes 26% who say they'd be very unlikely to stay. A smaller share (36%) say they'd be likely to stay at their job, with 20% saying they'd be very likely to do so."
”
Datos de la fuente de
2025-01-13
Accedido
2026-06-30
Cálculo
Pew Research Center analysis based primarily on 2,315 US working adults, from a larger survey conducted Oct 7-13, 2024. No survey asks remote workers directly whether they regret going remote, and Pew reports NO figure for current remote workers who would prefer the office. (An earlier version of this entry displayed Pew's "17% would opt for rarely or never working from home" as a remote-worker office-preference — but that 17% is drawn from the OFFICE subgroup, workers who rarely/never work from home, so it measured office-worker contentment, not remote-worker regret; it has been removed.) The only correctly-populated remote-side signal Pew provides is the retention question: 46% of current remote workers would be unlikely to stay if WFH ended (strong attachment / low regret), while a smaller 36% say they'd be likely to stay — i.e. would tolerate losing remote work. We use that 36% "likely to stay even if WFH ended" share as a deliberately generous UPPER BOUND on weak attachment to remote (proxy_only). It overstates true regret — someone content remote who would still stay if forced back counts in it — so read it as a ceiling, not a regret rate. We do not derive any figure from a satisfaction score.
[2]Remote / Future Workforce Alliance / IE Business School — Remote workers are happier and healthier than in-office counterparts, survey finds
Estudio primario
65% of remote workers reported being 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, vs 34% of office-based employees (satisfaction, not regret)
Extracto
“"65% of remote workers said they were 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, compared to just 34% of office-based employees. 42% of remote workers rated themselves as '8' or above on a happiness scale out of 10, compared to just 21% of office workers."
”
Datos de la fuente de
2024-06-15
Accedido
2026-04-26
Cálculo
Remote / Future Workforce Alliance / IE Business School Global Work-Life Survey of 1,000 workers across five continents. Included only as satisfaction context — remote workers report markedly higher job satisfaction than office workers. We do NOT invert the "extremely satisfied" share into a regret rate; non-top-box satisfaction is not regret. The headline action rate comes from the Pew retention proxy above.
Fuentes: inacción
Registro de evidencia
Cada número a continuación es lo que reportó cada fuente, con la cita textual en la que nos basamos y cómo llegamos a nuestra cifra. Haz clic en cualquier enlace para verificarlo directamente.
1/2 fuentes verificadas de forma independiente palabra por palabra frente a la fuente citada
[1]Pew Research Center — Many remote workers say they'd be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
Verificado
Estudio primario
63% of workers who rarely or never work from home say that, if they could choose, they'd work from home most or some of the time
Extracto
“"63% of those who rarely or never work from home now say that, if they could choose, they'd work from home most or some of the time. About one-in-five (19%) say they'd choose to work from home all the time, and 17% say they'd opt for rarely or never working from home."
”
Datos de la fuente de
2025-01-13
Accedido
2026-06-30
Verificación
Extracto recuperado de forma independiente y confirmado palabra por palabra frente a la fuente citada durante nuestra auditoría de fundamentación.
Cálculo
Pew Research Center analysis based primarily on 2,315 US working adults, from a larger survey conducted Oct 7-13, 2024. No survey asks office workers directly whether they regret not going remote, so we use the revealed-preference proxy Pew states verbatim: among workers who rarely or never work from home, 63% would prefer to work from home most or some of the time if they could choose, 19% would choose to work from home all the time, and only 17% would opt to keep working rarely or never from home. This is a "would reverse the choice" preference measure within the office subgroup, not a satisfaction inversion.
[2]Remote / Future Workforce Alliance / IE Business School — Remote workers are happier and healthier than in-office counterparts, survey finds
Estudio primario
Only 34% of office-based employees reported being 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, vs 65% of remote workers (satisfaction, not regret)
Extracto
“"65% of remote workers said they were 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, compared to just 34% of office-based employees. 42% of remote workers rated themselves as '8' or above on a happiness scale out of 10, compared to just 21% of office workers."
”
Datos de la fuente de
2024-06-15
Accedido
2026-04-26
Cálculo
Same Global Work-Life Survey. Office workers report much lower job satisfaction than remote workers (34% vs 65% extremely satisfied). Included only as satisfaction context. We do NOT invert the 34% top-box share into a 66% regret rate — non-top-box satisfaction is not regret. The headline inaction rate comes from the Pew preference proxy above. (The widely cited Envoy figure that "80% of bosses regret return-to-office plans" measures EXECUTIVES' process regret about their company's RTO strategy, not individual office workers regretting in-person work, so it is not used as the worker-level rate here.)
Advertencias
Ninguna de las tasas es una medida directa de arrepentimiento, y los dos lados descansan sobre proxies DISTINTOS. Ninguna encuesta publicada pregunta "¿se arrepiente de haber elegido el trabajo remoto?" o "¿se arrepiente de no haber pasado al trabajo remoto?". Para el lado de la oficina (inacción), el informe de enero de 2025 de Pew ofrece un proxy de preferencia limpio y correctamente poblado: el 63% de los trabajadores que rara vez o nunca trabajan desde casa preferiría, con libre elección, trabajar desde casa la mayor parte o parte del tiempo. Para el lado remoto (acción), Pew NO informa una cifra comparable de "preferiría la oficina" para los trabajadores remotos actuales; su "17% optaría por trabajar rara vez o nunca desde casa" procede del subgrupo de OFICINA, no de los trabajadores remotos, por lo que no mide el arrepentimiento del trabajo remoto y no se usa aquí. La única señal correctamente poblada del lado remoto es la pregunta de retención: el 46% de los trabajadores remotos actuales sería poco probable que se quedara si se eliminara el trabajo desde casa (fuerte apego / bajo arrepentimiento), mientras que un 36% menor sería probable que se quedara. Reportamos ese 36% como un límite superior deliberadamente generoso del débil apego al trabajo remoto, no como una tasa de arrepentimiento; sobrestima el arrepentimiento real porque alguien conforme en remoto que aún toleraría un regreso a la oficina cuenta en él. Como el proxy del lado de la acción es un techo más que una medida de preferencia equivalente, la diferencia de −0,27 entre los dos lados debe leerse como direccional, no precisa. Una versión anterior de esta entrada convertía los porcentajes de "extremadamente satisfecho" de la encuesta en tasas de arrepentimiento (35% y 66%); eso confundía la satisfacción leve con el arrepentimiento y se ha eliminado. La encuesta de satisfacción de Remote/IE Business School se conserva solo como contexto (los trabajadores remotos reportan mayor satisfacción que los de oficina) y fue realizada por una empresa con un interés comercial en la adopción del trabajo remoto, lo que introduce un posible sesgo de encuadre y de muestreo. La cifra a menudo citada de Envoy "el 80% de los jefes se arrepiente de sus planes de vuelta a la oficina" mide el arrepentimiento de proceso de los ejecutivos sobre la estrategia de RTO de su empresa — una población y un constructo distintos — por lo que no se usa como tasa de arrepentimiento por la oficina a nivel de trabajador. Los datos de Pew son de adultos estadounidenses; las normas de trabajo remoto varían entre países.
